ssh forwarding request denied - SSH

This is a discussion on ssh forwarding request denied - SSH ; Hi all,
I have an ssh tunnel between two machines: local port 5000 will be
tunneled
to port 1521 on the remote side.
A telnet localhost 5000 results in the following error messages on
the remote machine;
sshd[28421]:[ID800047 FACILITY_AND_PRIORITY] Received ...

Re: ssh forwarding request denied

| I have an ssh tunnel between two machines: local port 5000 will be
| tunneled
| to port 1521 on the remote side.
|
| A telnet localhost 5000 results in the following error messages on
| the remote machine;
|
| sshd[28421]:[ID800047 FACILITY_AND_PRIORITY] Received request to
| connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 1521 , but the request was
| denied.
|
| I have the same setup on a number of machines but only this one is
| causing trouble.

It would seem that nothing is listening to port 1521 on the remote side.
Login with a shell to the remote machine (and maybe su to root if you
can do that) and try checking: